Practice-ing thermal comfort: Is home heating and cooling all about energy behaviours? Auckland, New Zealand London, United Kingdom Brendan Doody PhD Candidate, Durham University
London, United Kingdom
52% CO 2 London, United Kingdom
The ABC of behaviour change Individualistic Systemic Socio-technical systems Attitudes, Behaviour, Choice
Practice-ing behaviour change • 1970s: Bourdieu (1977) and Giddens (1984) Individuals Systems
Practice-ing behaviour change • 1970s: Bourdieu (1977) and Giddens (1984) Individuals Systems Practices
Value of practice theory • Moves beyond: agency/structure • Routine, mundane, everyday • ‘Carried out’
Moving beyond energy? Lounges : 91% Kitchens: 48% Dining Rooms: 73% Bedrooms: 36%
Moving beyond energy? Mostly we just heat this living room […] and the rest of the house we just don ’ t even heat. So it Lounges : 91% Kitchens: 48% is like running from a nice living room to snuggle under the duvets. [Sarah, early 30s, Christchurch] Dining Rooms: 73% Bedrooms: 36%
Thermal comfort • Not a-social: physiological experience • Socially and historically situated • Collective conventions and co-evolves • Meanings varies: time, space and place
Thermal comfort • Not a-social: physiological experience • Socially and historically situated • Collective conventions and co-evolves • Meanings varies: time, space and place 94% Use 20% Use
Practicing thermal comfort Auckland, New Zealand London, United Kingdom
Practicing thermal comfort Auckland, New Zealand London, United Kingdom
(Re)configuring thermal comfort
The elements of practices 1. Practical understanding, 2. Rules, knowledge, language embodied habits, know-how 3. Common 4. Products, things, understandings: technologies meanings
Objectives 1. How the ways of changing behaviour have been understood previously 2. People ’ s current thermal comfort practices 3. Ways in which current thermal comfort practices might be re-configured
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